Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-30

sively and wholly with Californi;
canned fruits, having on boart
"a. 900 cases, and it left OF
September 9th direct for London
"That boat was followed by the Lang
dale, "a 1000 ton ship, which was loaded
with 6S 900 cases OF the same goods
and it left on September 1lth direct
for Liverpool, and when l left Sar
Francisco another English ship wa,
| in the docks loaded with our canned
fruits. We feel very proud Of the pop
ularity and the worldwide demand ol
our American canned fruits put up in
California"
"What about your fruit drying, is
| not that very large industry in Cali
fornia ?"
"The development of the fruit dry
ing industry is remarkable. The pro-
duct of raisins has become SO great as
to make it certain that Spanish raisins
will be completely driven from the
American market in spite OF the preiu.
dice in favor of foreign articles. Deal
crs are now coming to acknowledge
that California raisins possess great adj
vantage over the Spanish. Your Che
cdgo Grocer and the american Grocer
of New York, both have published
statements in favor of the California
raisins. They stated that they
were less disposed to sweat, and
freer from candying than any
other raisin i'll the market. The num-
Der of drying machines has in
creased tenfold during the year 1887
over that of 1885, and L predict that
the number in operation next year will
be more than double that of the pres
ent year. With what has been shipped,
and a careful estimate OF what will be
>hipp ID the balance of the year there
wilnb 5 400 carloads, or los, 900 ,000
poun Is of green, dried and canned
fruit shipped East over one railroad
this year, the Southern Pacific system.
A ca eful estimate Of the value of the
Crap fruit and nut crop OF California
OF 1S z is over $15, 900, 900"
"What other astonishing things
have you got to tell me about the pro
ducts of California ?'' .s.
swell, will surprise you by telling
you that up to the lst of September oi
this year, we have shipped over 100,-
900, 900 pounds OF beans to your city
and to Boston, and 5000, 900 pounds
of potatoes, and the estimated ship
ment of vegetables, beans and pota-
toes for this year viii amount to 40
600 900 pourds.'
"Tell me something about San
Francisco" ~
"Well, San Francisco never was as
prosperous rs it is to-day. 1t ranksas
the third city in the United States as
port OF entry, our imports and ex-
psyts by sea aggregating q value OF
owes eighty millions of dollars. Our
foreign tonnage clcarances were 20 03S
tons in 1886, and our coastwise ton-
mage was 1923, ,155 tons; 70i vessels
cleared for foreign ports during the
year, and our trade, with the Pacific
coast ports is growing largely. Ii ag-
gregated in exports and imports
last year over SAL 900, 900. All OF
the coffee of large part of
Central America, sugar and rice in
great quantities, find their way in
to the United States through our port.
Ship-budding is becoming an impor-
tant industry. There are two large
war ships being built at one yard. and
we have three very large yards at
work on steamers, sailing vessels, etc.
1t is hardly probable that we shall
draw 0 tleE E lst for any more tonnage,
as our facilities are better there for
building than elsewhere. 1t is true
we pay high prices for labor, but that
is Offset by the great efficiency OF, the
workmen, who, owing to no extremes
Of hot or col /, can do twice as much
work as at the Fast. The assessed
value OF San Francisco property
has increased during the year 1887
$2l 300 600, and in the State the in
crease was $130,O00,OO We have five
overland roads how connecting our
coast with the East, and local roads
are being built in every section of our
State. 1t may be roundly claimed
that California, owing to its wonderful
com bination OF soil and climate. will
produce anything from a pineapple to
winter gilly-hower, from u persim-
mon to pomegranate, or from big
tree 400 feet high to cape jessamine.
1t would take too much OF your space
to speak of all of all OF our agricultural
and horticultural products, and shall
not attempt to do it,"
"What effect has the Interstate act
had upon the Pacific coast, and what
is the feeling OF the people in refer
ence to that bill?"
"The people were and are still
strongly in favor of the Interstate bill.
OF course the railroads attempted to
make it as odious as possible by heavy
increase in freight and passenger
charges, but the laws OF trade soon
regulated that, for the prices they
put upon our products were sim
ply prohibitory, and there was no
shipping of any kind until the rail-
roads come back to fair price, and
as natural result Of their attempt to
increase freights we received the ben,
eft we expected to, the fostering OF
home manufactures. One OF the re-
suits of the bill has been to force our
merchants into patronizing home
manufacturers, and our nail works,
type foundries, paper mills, woolen
mills, glass works and other manufac-
tories have been running on full time
with large contracts ahead"
"Do you intend to stay long in Chi
cago?"
"My other business in coming here
was to attend the annual meeting OF
the Associated Press, which takes
place in Detroit ON the Goth Of this
month. After attending that meeting
] shall return again to Chicago to
complete my arrangements for the
new Chronicle building. - [Chicago
Journal.